4Seasons Concert Series

Bringing the best musical talent from the United States and around the World to Dallas-Fort Worth!

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Wieslaw V. Rentowski

​ Polish-American Composer and Organist

​The Music of W.V. Rentowski has been presented at many International Festivals and Conferences in Europe, Russia, Asia, USA and Canada. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician, and has been the featured guest composer at International Music Festivals in Poland, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Rentowski has given master classes in composition and organ performance and has been invited many times to lecture on his own music. Dr. Rentowski holds advanced degrees from the University of Lodz, in Poland ,and Louisiana State Univeristy in the United States.

Before coming to North America, Dr. Rentowski received several Composition prizes in Poland for his orchestra and chamber works, including the First Prize in the National Competition for Young Composers in Warsaw (1988). Amongst his recent compositions are: Tu Ee Petra, commissioned by Carson Cooman, virtuoso organist and composer; Saint Patrick’s Mass, (a response to the 2001 crash of A.A. Flight 587); Colla Parte(2011); and Affabile(2015), written for and dedicated to Dmitri Ratser. Dr. Rentowski's most recent work, En Mis Sueños was composed especially for EXPREZZ DUO'S performance in DeSoto, Texas.

Dr. Rentowski is the recipient of many grants and awards from institutions in Poland, Germany, Canada and the USA, and his music has been published, recorded and discussed in Europe and North America. Dr. Rentowski (also a conductor) taught / lectured at several colleges in Poland, Canada and the USA.. He is a founding member and current President of the National Association of Composers (NACUSA)-Texas Chapter, and serves as NACUSA’s National Vice –President & Coordinator of the Young Composers’s Competition.

Dr. Rentowski is the President of the 4Seasons Concert Series. ​

CONCERT MANAGER

​Renie McClellan

Renie McClellan serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the DeSoto 4Seasons Concert Series and works with Dr. W. V. Rentowski, Artistic Director and President, to a fund, schedule, publicize, and organize classical music performances in Southwest Dallas County.

As Chair of the Texas Boys Choir International Tour Committee, Ms. McClellan served as liaison to the Olympic Committee in Germany to facilitate the Choir's participation in the 2004 Choir Olympics in Bremen, Germany. She was actively engaged in scheduling performances in Germany and the Czech Republic, and in marketing the Texas Boys'Choir CD, "One World" to help fund the tour.​Renie McClellan is an attorney with the Texas Attorney General's Office and serves as the Special Litigator for Region 4, which includes Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Grayson, Kaufman, and Navarro Counties. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas - Austin, and received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas Law School. Before joining the Texas Attorney General's Office, Ms. McClellan had a thriving - but exhausting - private practice. She also served as an faculty member with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for 25 years, and for 19 years served as the Director of the Southern Regional NITA Trial Advocacy Program.

Board of Directors

4Seasons Concert Series

In 2012, Dr. Wieslaw Rentowski broached his idea to create a Committee dedicated to the creation and cultivation of a vibrant classical music concert series working out of Southwest Dallas County, to a group of like-minded people. Dr. Rentowski uncovered a source possible source of funding that would supplement individual contributions to facilitate the formation of the Commitee and the presentation of stellar classical musicians in Southwest Dallas County and beyond. The original St. A. Classical Music Concert Series Committee, consisting of Susan Alexander, Suzy Dunn-Bradford, Harold Boswell, Father Andrew Wright,Judy Barnaby, and Renie McClellan, led by Dr. Rentowski as Artistic Director, worked long and hard and successfully presented "The Requiem by Gabriel Faure; the "Candles and Christmas Lights"; "Vivaldi, In His Own Time" ; Dmitri Ratser, "A Night to Remember"; and the Arlington Master Chorale, "Hairston and Hogan: The Evolution of the African-American Spiritual".

The original organization was revamped as the 4Seasons Concert Series in 2015, and was incorporated as an independent 501(c)(3) corporation. Our name suggests our intent: to present Four concerts per year, one each season. Though with only three Directors, we have a host of volunteers and donors - including those named above - working with 4Seasons to transform our intent into reality.